By a certain age, a lot of men know the feeling, even if they’ve never put a name to it. The constant tiredness, the lack of gains in the gym, the weight you can’t shift, an irritability you can’t explain. And sex, somewhere along the way, has stopped feeling worth the effort. It’s a particular kind of mid-life “flatness”, as Dr Jeff Foster explains it — and he should know, he hears about it from patients almost daily.
“If [sex] is offered, great,” he says of the way many describe their fading libido. “But otherwise I’ll just watch TV, I’m not bothered.” If that feels a little too familiar, you may be exactly the man he is trying to reach.
